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Therapeutic touch and anxiety

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http://hdl.handle.net/10755/156754

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<table><tr><td colspan="2" class="item-title">Therapeutic touch and anxiety</td></tr><tr class="item-sponsor"><td class="label">Conference Sponsor:</td><td class="value">Sigma Theta Tau International</td></tr><tr class="item-year"><td class="label">Conference Year:</td><td class="value">1992</td></tr><tr class="item-conference-date"><td class="label">Conference Date:</td><td class="value">August 6 - 8, 1992</td></tr><tr class="item-author"><td class="label">Author:</td><td class="value">Olson, Melodie, PhD</td></tr><tr class="item-institute"><td class="label">P.I. Institution Name:</td><td class="value">Medical University of South Carolina, College of Nursing</td></tr><tr class="item-author-title"><td class="label">Title:</td><td class="value">Associate Professor</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="item-abstract">Purpose:<br/><br/>This study was planned as the first in a series of studies to<br/><br/>determine the effectiveness of the use of Therapeutic Touch (TT) in<br/><br/>reduction of anxiety in a variety of patient conditions which are<br/><br/>complicated by high levels of state anxiety. Previous studies of<br/><br/>Therapeutic Touch have been flawed, in part because foundational<br/><br/>studies have not been done to determine appropriate outcome<br/><br/>measures, and appropriate samples. This study investigates the<br/><br/>effects of TT in a healthy sample of normal adults who are<br/><br/>experiencing an episodic stressful event, to see if TT reduces<br/><br/>state anxiety, and it addresses flaws in previous studies of TT and<br/><br/>anxiety reduction. Three self-report measures of anxiety (Profile<br/><br/>of Mood States, Spielberger's State/Trait Anxiety Inventory, and<br/><br/>investigator developed visual analogue scales) will be evaluated<br/><br/>for equivalence and concurrent validity, to determine the potential<br/><br/>for use in future studies.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Design:<br/><br/>This is a four group, repeated measures experimental design. The<br/><br/>groups are:<br/><br/>high anxiety, with intervention (TT);<br/><br/>high anxiety, without intervention;<br/><br/>low to moderate anxiety, with intervention (TT);<br/><br/>low to moderate anxiety, without intervention.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Forty subjects are randomly assigned to either intervention or<br/><br/>non-intervention groups, within the anxiety category to which each<br/><br/>belong. High anxiety is defined as a score of 1 S.D. above the<br/><br/>mean on the SSTAI. Low anxiety is defined as a score falling<br/><br/>between the mean and 1 S.D. below the mean. Four data collection<br/><br/>sessions are held, with interventions (or control treatments) at<br/><br/>sessions two and three. The episodic stressor, defined as a test<br/><br/>or other assignment in graduate school which counts as 25 percent<br/><br/>or more of their course grade, occurs between session 3 and 4.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Data Analysis:<br/><br/>The four groups will be assessed for differences on demographic<br/><br/>variables, and the hypotheses tested using a 3-factor repeated<br/><br/>measures analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) over sessions 2,3, and 4,<br/><br/>using Trait anxiety as a covariate.<br/><br/><br/><br/>A detailed correlation analysis of the SSTAI-State, SSTAI-Trait,<br/><br/>POMS anxiety subscale, VAS General anxiety measure, and the VAS<br/><br/>State anxiety measure will be carried out in order to assess the<br/><br/>concurrent validity of the VAS instruments, using the Pearson<br/><br/>Correlation procedure. At the time of the conference, results of<br/><br/>the high anxiety groups will be available, but data collection for<br/><br/>the few remaining low anxiety subjects may be unfinished.<br/><br/><br/><br/></td></tr></table>

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dc.date.available

2011-10-26T15:06:12Z

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dc.date.issued

1992-08-06

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2011-10-26T15:06:12Z

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Sigma Theta Tau International

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